"Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn."

-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Law Quotes #Dresses Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The key to skeleton is to find the line, and I think I spend most of training figuring out where that sweet spot is.”
“The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford, Graham Greene (1963). “The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up”
“Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that postmenopausal women who were put on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol had a nearly 48 percent increased risk of developing diabetes compared to those who werenâ€™t given the drug.”

Source : David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.15, Hachette UK
“All things want to float.”
“When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your lungs. When I saw this time I was like, 'Ah, that's not possible.' Yeah...that was a good moment.”
“It's only game. Why you have to be mad?”

Source : The Score interview, 2006.
“This is business: they don't care about your lyrics; The better you sell, the better future for their children. Controversy sells, so they support conflict, Makes more progress, means more profit. An artist gets killed, they say they're 'so sorry,' Meanwhile, they tell you the date of his next project. What a life...death made them more profit: Record companies get paid for your drama.”
“I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.”

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